May 7, 2014
Startup Rockley Photonics will leverage silicon photonics to create systems-level products, co-founder and CEO Dr. Andrew Rickman revealed in a recent conversation with Lightwave. While Rickman declined to provide details of the upcoming product, he dropped a few hints as he described how the company plans to differentiate itself.
April 17, 2014
UK service providers Sky and TalkTalk and fiber to the home (FTTH) infrastructure company CityFibre say they will create a new company that will deliver 1-Gbps broadband services in the City of York, as well as two other locations that they will reveal later.
March 21, 2014
Fiber-optic network services provider Integra Telecom Inc. has enhanced its wavelength service portfolio with higher bandwidths and new network redundancy options. Available across Integra's metro and long-haul fiber footprint, the new service options offer increased capacity with improved latency and network diversity for bandwidth-intensive applications and business-critical data, Integra asserts.
March 19, 2014
Software and optical transport systems developer BTI Systems has unveiled the BTI 7802 converged networking platform for metro and regional applications. The system, which features a compact two-slot design, offers upgrade options for MPLS label switch routing (LSR), software-defined networking (SDN) control, and network functions virtualization (NFV).
April 10, 2013
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) has announced a pair of field trials for its VDSL2 vectoring technology. One, with China Telecom, is touted as the first such trial in China. The other was with Tunisie Telecom.
July 9, 2012
Consolidated Communications (Nasdaq: CNSL) may be the newest telecom player in Elk Grove, Calif. thanks to its recent acquisition of SureWest, but Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) thinks its strong community ties will keep it in front.